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Opening the 360 Harddrive

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What you need:

* TORX #6 screwdriver

* TORX #10 screwdriver

* Knowlegde that this will break your warranty

Remove the Xbox360 Harddrive-bay from you console (simply press the button).

On the back you'll find 4 TORX#6 screws (red circles below) ... one ofthem is behind the microsoft logo-sticker ... so opening your harddiskwill break your warranty on the Xbox 360 HDD-bay.

Below you see an image of a TORX #6 screwdriver (left) and the HDD-bay with all screws removed (right).

 

Once the screws are removed, you can remove the top and you'll get something like shown below.

Ifyou try to remove the top, some (3) parts might fall (the mechanism tolock/unlock the HDD-bay on your Xbox 360 console). Just make sure youdon't lose these parts, if they fall apart the pictures below will showyou how to re-assemble it.

 

4 more screws to remove, this time they a are TORX#10. Remove all 4 screws shown in red circles below.

Onthe left you see an images of a TORX#10 screw, on the right what youget after removing the 4 screws and taking of the metal casing.

 

Now unplug the SATA data+power connector like shown below:

You can now slide the hdd out of the HDD-bay. You'll need to bend the case down or push the HDD upwards so it can pass.

Your Xbox 360 2.5" harddrive is fully removed.

 

TheXbox 360 Harddisk is using standard SATA data and power cables, so youcan easily connect it to any SATA controller (either on yourmotherboard (pretty much all new motherboards have SATA these days) oryou can also buy a PCI/PCI-E addon card or even an SATA-to-IDE or SATA-to-USB adapter).

Forpower you'll need a PC PSU (power supply unit) with SATA power plugs oruse a simply conveter that can convert normal PSU connectors to SATAconnectors.

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